Thanks for your posts.
Riley Tidwell.
And about the little bag of sand. That was when the Germans were pushing us back on the beaches at Salerno. One of the boys had a little old Bull Durham full of sand that he'd brought from home with him. The Germans had us just about pushed into the water there on Salerno, and he just poured that little old bag of sand out on the beach, and said, "Now, we ain't going on no farther back than this. This is Texas."
Oooorah!
I was born after my Uncle died but I did get to spend some time with Riley Tidwell. He was quite a character.